Within the span of just six days, immigration enforcement agents fatally shot two more people, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. Their deaths are not an aberration, they’re an indictment: President Donald Trump’s mass deportation machine is deadly and wreaks havoc on American streets every day.  

Juiced by tens of billions in funding from Congress, the Trump Administration has amassed thousands of law enforcement personnel and deployed them in a nationwide “surge”—with a public mandate to deport one million people per year, regardless of the chaos their actions cause in American streets. These latest shootings, which Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) now admits took the lives of people who weren’t even their intended targets, reveal the sloppy, reckless, and cruel results of the Trump Administration’s unprecedented arrest escalation. 

The New York Times reports that six other people have been fatally shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since the start of President Trump’s second term, as the agency pursues aggressive arrest quotas. Without change, this pattern of reckless enforcement threatens to become the........

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